The first punch floored a Mexican real estate investor named Diego Marroquin. Within 22 seconds Adam Hock, a burly New York entrepreneur, had landed two more on the son of a French fashion potentate and Grace Kelly’s grandson. When the heir to a Greek shipping empire, a former boyfriend of Paris Hilton, intervened, Hock hit him too.

The fracas between Hock and the members of European café society in a Manhattan nightclub was dubbed the Battle Royale by New York tabloids. To the newspapers’ chagrin, there was no blow by blow dissection of it in court: last month Hock admitted